Clark Haaland
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Clark Haaland
Essay
The Annual Arc: Your Year as a Story, Not as a Scorecard
Most people approach Annual Reviews like accountants — auditing wins and losses, tallying completed goals against abandoned ones. But this transactional lens obscures something crucial: your year wasn’t a list of discrete events. It was part of an unfolding narrative, a chapter in who
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2026 prep
The philosopher Kierkegaard wrote 150 years ago, and he was one of the first psychological philosophers who really wrote about anxiety. He regarded himself rather useless, all things considered. He wrote a section in one of his books about all the industrialists who were operating in Europe at that time, trying in every possible way to make life... See more
A More Reliable And Meaningful Aim Than Happiness
Decades into his long life, the poet Robert Graves defined love as “a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth in a way that... makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other.”
Maria Popova • What Love Really Means: Iris Murdoch on Unselfing, the Symmetry Between Art and Morality, and How We Unblind Ourselves to Each Other’s Realities
Ness Labs: A Year of Curiosity 🗓️
mail.google.comadding a curiosity collection:
“In wicked domains, the rules of the game are often unclear or incomplete, there may or may not be repetitive patterns and they may not be obvious, and feedback is often delayed, inaccurate, or both.”
According to Epstein, this is where generalists thrive. They are able to use their diverse experiences to attack problems in unique ways and see... See more
According to Epstein, this is where generalists thrive. They are able to use their diverse experiences to attack problems in unique ways and see... See more
Why Generalists Own the Future
Using AI for Content Curation